CincyTort26
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Hi guys!!
It’s been a while since I posted, I had a baby sulcata for 3 years, he/she never really thrived, and last summer my significant other was tort sitting for me and he managed to escape his outdoor enclosure (it had been moved to mow the lawn and my guess is my SO did not get it close enough to the ground, so he got underneath it).
I contemplated getting another for a while now, but I'm planning on buying a home this fall (assuming the world doesn’t come to an end before then) and decided to go ahead and get a new baby!!!
I’m spending today setting up his enclosure! Here’s what I have so far.
it’s 4’ x 2’ and I’m hoping it will be his home for the first year.
its a rabbit cage I ordered off chewy. it came with a metal top that I am encasing in clear plastic as soon as I post this so it will be a closed chamber
Substrate: 50% organic topsoil, 50% peat moss, soaked in TONS of water. Pressed down firm. If I push on the substrate the smallest amount of water squished out.
On the left is the built in hide for the bunnies, which I’ve also put dirt on top of so he can climb atop the hide too.
the plants are Romain lettuce (green and red), two plaintain lillys, and a rex begonia. Everything g I read said those are non toxic. I expect they will be munched on/trampled. I’d they survive, great, if not, I won’t be heart broken.
His main diet will be good ‘ole Kentucky bluegrass. And all the dandelions my yard will produce!
the plan is for the hideside to be the cool side, the pot farthest to the left the basking spot/food spot,the one in the middle the water dish.
I have a long bulb UVA/UVB bulb, a 150watt zoo med basking light, and a small ceramic heat emitter I’m waiting to arrive from Amazon.
I would LOVE any input or suggestions you guys have!!!!!
P.s. he’s coming from Arizona Tortoise Compound
It’s been a while since I posted, I had a baby sulcata for 3 years, he/she never really thrived, and last summer my significant other was tort sitting for me and he managed to escape his outdoor enclosure (it had been moved to mow the lawn and my guess is my SO did not get it close enough to the ground, so he got underneath it).
I contemplated getting another for a while now, but I'm planning on buying a home this fall (assuming the world doesn’t come to an end before then) and decided to go ahead and get a new baby!!!
I’m spending today setting up his enclosure! Here’s what I have so far.
it’s 4’ x 2’ and I’m hoping it will be his home for the first year.
its a rabbit cage I ordered off chewy. it came with a metal top that I am encasing in clear plastic as soon as I post this so it will be a closed chamber
Substrate: 50% organic topsoil, 50% peat moss, soaked in TONS of water. Pressed down firm. If I push on the substrate the smallest amount of water squished out.
On the left is the built in hide for the bunnies, which I’ve also put dirt on top of so he can climb atop the hide too.
the plants are Romain lettuce (green and red), two plaintain lillys, and a rex begonia. Everything g I read said those are non toxic. I expect they will be munched on/trampled. I’d they survive, great, if not, I won’t be heart broken.
His main diet will be good ‘ole Kentucky bluegrass. And all the dandelions my yard will produce!
the plan is for the hideside to be the cool side, the pot farthest to the left the basking spot/food spot,the one in the middle the water dish.
I have a long bulb UVA/UVB bulb, a 150watt zoo med basking light, and a small ceramic heat emitter I’m waiting to arrive from Amazon.
I would LOVE any input or suggestions you guys have!!!!!
P.s. he’s coming from Arizona Tortoise Compound